This is an analysis of the poem The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe that begins with:
COME all ye lads and lassies and listen to me a while,
And I’ll sing for you a verse or two will cause you all to smile; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbX ccbX bbbX cXcc ddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111101100101 111110111011101 010101111100111 1110101000100111 11110110110101 1111010110100 11110111110011 1111101010100111 0111011111101 01011101110001 111111011111101 1110101010100111 111101111111 11010101111101 11010101110111 111101110100111 01111011110111 11101100110111 101111101110101 11111111111110101 0111111110100111 111011101111111 11111111010011 1111111110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1600
- Average number of words per stanza: 321
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, all, to, we, my, for, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, look are repeated.
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